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Wynnum Manly Ward, sometimes stylised as Wynnum-Manly and formerly known as Wynnum Ward, is a Brisbane City Council ward covering Wynnum, Wynnum West, Manly, Lota, Lytton, Port of Brisbane, and part of Manly West.
The former Wynnum Shire Council was created in 1902, and twelve years later Wynnum became a municipality with its own town council and the right to elect a mayor. Black's Camp was disbanded in 1908, and the area was redeveloped into Elanora Park in the 1930s. [14] The Wynnum Town Council was absorbed into the enlarged City of Brisbane in 1925. [33]
The former Brisbane City Council Tramways substation no 9 was built to the design of Brisbane City Council Tramways architect Roy Rusden Ogg around 1935 during a period of tramways expansion. [1] Horse-drawn trams operated in Brisbane from August 1885, operated by an English company, Metropolitan Tramway and Investment Co. Ltd.
Brisbane City Council (BCC, also known as Council) is the local government of the City of Brisbane, the capital city of the Australian state of Queensland.The largest local government in Australia by population and area, BCC's jurisdiction includes 26 wards and 27 elected councillors covering 1,338 km 2 (517 sq mi).
The last Mayor of the Town of Wynnum was John William Greene.Greene won the election for Mayor for 1921, held on Saturday 23 July 1921, for a three-year term. [9] He then successfully nominated for Mayor for 5 April 1924 elections, being elected Mayor with 1334 votes over his nearest rival's 1118 votes, with a third candidate getting 668 votes, for a term that would last less than a year ...
Prior to the formation of Brisbane City Council in 1925, the Brisbane area was split amongst many Cities, Towns and Shires, including the Town of Wynnum. Greene was the last Mayor of Wynnum. Greene won the election for mayor, held on Saturday 23 July 1921, for a three-year term, winning with 1137 votes against four other candidates, many of ...
The City of Brisbane is governed by the Brisbane City Council, the largest local council in Australia. The Brisbane City Council has its power divided between a lord mayor, a parliamentary-style council of twenty-six councillors representing single-member wards of approximately 30,000 voters [14] (roughly equivalent in size to state electorates ...
Wynnum was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1923 to 1986. [ 1 ] The district was based in the eastern suburbs of Brisbane and named for the suburb of Wynnum .